Cathy Chan Fanny Fan Tinny Pang Ivy Wong Charissa Yeung

1. Tourism in Hong Kong Cathy Chan Fanny Fan Tinny PangIvy Wong Charissa Yeung

2. Welcome to Hong Kong!! We are going to visit the Hong Kong Railway Museum, Man Mo Temple, Lookout Tower and Lam Tsuen. All of these are some interesting and memorial places in the New Territories especially in Tai Po. We will visit these spots today. Are you excited?? YA! Today is such a sweet day for visiting !

3. Schedule

4. Man MoTemple Located at Fu Shin Street, the Man Mo Temple. The Temple was built by the Tsat Yeuk Villagers in the late 19th century and was once used as the office of the Tsat Yeuk Rural Committee. Careful restoration work has given the Temple an authentic look. There are many rooms inside the temple and inside the rooms there are a lot of god statues for people to worship, those statues were just made of wood. But after the restoration work people just put the statues out in the middle of the temple for people to worship.Now a day, Man Mo Temple already listed as a monument。The open time of Man Mo Temple is from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m..   Transportation：Man Mo Temple is near the Hong Kong Railway Museum. We can walk to there in 10 minutes.

5. Inside the Man Mo Temple… Smoke is all over the temple. Your eyes may feel a little bit painful. Try to guess what’s behind this door! Answer People put their joss stick in this vessel.

6. left right They are the gods of the door. They help us to frighten away the ghosts. They are the General Qin and General Wu. At night, they stood outside the Tong Tai Chung’s room so that Tong Tai Chung could sleep and handle the affairs in day time. But they couldn’t stand outside every night. So Tong Tai Chung made the painter to draw their pictures and stick on the door. Then they became the gods of the door. We need to respect them.

7. We will take the bus 64K to Lam Tsuen. 15 to 20 minutes is required. Let me introduce the bus to you!! Now we are sitting on the Kowloon Motor Bus(KMB). Nowadays, most of the bus in HK have air conditioners, some of them may have radios and televisions. The bus company also take care the disables, there are seats for the disables. And all the passengers can pay the fee through the octopus card so we do not need to carry lots of coins in our purse. What is “OCTOPUS CARD”?? Can you tell me something about that! Sure!

8. Octopus is an electronic ticket. It can be used to pay the transportation fee, buying things in the convenient shops like 7-11 and Circle K, supermarket and some fast-food shops like McDonald’s. Also, we can use Octopus to book the public recreational activities. In our school, we put our Octopus Card on the Octopus Reader to record our attendances, pay the school fee and buy snacks in the tuck shop. Wow! How high technology your school are! Do you enjoy any discounts when using the Octopus? Heh! There is your photo on your Octopus Card! Yeah! Because I have an application for a personal Octopus. Actually there are 5 types of Octopus Card…

9. They are… Student Octopus card Adult Octopus card Elder Octopus card Oh! We need to get off the bus now. We have arrived! Child Octopus card Personal Octopus card Using the elder octopus and child octopus, you can have a 50% off discount on traveling each public transport, except vans and taxi. And when using the student octopus, you can have a 50% off discount when traveling the MTR.Do you want to know how to use the Octopus card? Simply touch the Octopus card on the Octopus Fare Deducting Processor.

10. Lam Tsuen is located in Fong Ma Po, there are two wishing trees there. One is for all kinds of wishes, and one is for marriage. Many people go there and try to wish for a good marriage. This one for the marriage!

11. You need to buy a wish paper, in Chinese 寶碟. (It only costs you $3~5) Be reminded that you can only write down 3 wishes on the sheet, so think carefully before you write! (^o^) Click here! This may help you~ You can buy the whole set like Ivy. It costs you about $20~25. For the whole process, please link to: Part-1Part-2 (open with the real one player) Charissa will teach you how to do!

12. Because it will be more easier for you to throw it up on the tree. Why is there an orange link with the wish paper? I see. It is very interesting. But why are there so many people coming here and just make a wish?? Good question! It’s related to legends There are two of them. Let me tell you both of them!

13. Once upon a time, there was a woman. Her son was weak in studying. So she went to the Wishing Tree with her son, prayed to the tree earnestly. After that, her son became clever and good at studying. Then many people thought that there was a god in the tree. They prayed to the god and made wishes to the tree. The following is another version. One day, there was a fire burning all the trees. Before the trees died, two Chinese redbuds grew in front of the tree. And the two redbuds grew bigger and bigger.So all the residents thought that it was a very powerful tree! Then the powerful tree developed into nowadays’ wishing tree.

14. For lunch, we will go to this restaurant for Yum Cha. This restaurant is located in the Tai Po Center. Why is Yum Cha so special? It’s mainly because you can eat many different kinds of Chinese food there. Hong Kong people like this kind of style verymuch. So how much is it?? It is around $250. You can order any food you like but remember that don’t waste any food. Okay! Is there time limitation? It starts from 12:00p.m until 5:00p.m.. Wow! That’s great! Certainly I will be full! Hah! Let’s go~! I’m sure that you’ll like it!

15. Do you know how to use chopsticks? Just use the hand to hold them together. Easy job!! Really? Let’s try! You must hold them in the correct way so that you can hold the food easily, especially for the sphere shaped food like fish ball! But many Chinese also don’t know how to hold them in the correct way… So what is the correct way? See here

16. Summary

17. Currently the largest park in Tai Po District is the Tai Po Waterfront Park, completed in June 1997. It is located to the south of Tai Po Industrial Estate facing the Tolo Harbour. The Lookout Tower in the Park is 32.4 meters -high with the upper levels open to public daily from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Visitors can climb up the Tower and take a bird's eye view of the whole Park.

18. It’s because some of the people in the New Territories died when protecting their homeland, so people there started to participate more in activities concerning developments there; and this made Hong Kong in one’s days of prosperity. Besides, it was also because of when England take over the New Territories, the starting point was the Lookout Tower in Tai Po now, so this tower was built there for commemoration.

19. Hong Kong Railway Museum It is located in the town center of Tai Po Market. Inside is the Railway Station building which is erected in 1913. It has a  pitched roof ofthe traditional Chinese building and it was declared a monument in 1984. One year later, after the restoration and refurbishment, the building was opened as a museum. It have received an Annual Awards in December 1986 from the Architectural Services Department. Do you know why it was located in Tai Po market but not other places? Let me tell you.

20. Tai Po naturally developed into a center of administration and trade. The location of the Old Tai Po Market Station on the south bank of the Lam Tsuen River brought prosperity to Tai Wo Market and as more and more people came here to trade, the market gradually became a focus of Tai Po’s flourishing economy.

21. For dinner, we will go to this restaurant. Why do we have to go here? This is a very popular restaurant in Hong Kong. It has a very long history, it was established in 1986. How much will this meal cost? It costs about $400. The quality of food is quite good.

22. Enjoy your trip then!